Plan B: Further Thoughts on FaithFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything, a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. As Anne Lamott knows, the world is a dangerous place. Terrorism and war have become the new normal. Environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on her faith as well: getting older; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope that we’re not alone in the midst of despair. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort and to make us laugh despite the grim realities. Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It is further evidence that, as The New Yorker has written, "Anne Lamott is a cause for celebration." |
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... mother's daily battles with her son over chores and homework. Plan B is an amusing, refreshing discussion of the practical matters of faith and religion that is welcome at a time when the debate of such topics F U R T H E R P R A. often ...
... mother's daily battles with her son over chores and homework. Plan B is an amusing, refreshing discussion of the practical matters of faith and religion that is welcome at a time when the debate of such topics F U R T H E R P R A. often ...
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... Mother Mary, with dreadlocks and a bad back. But within seconds, I was frantic to turn on the TV. I was in withdrawal—I needed more scolding from Donald Rumsfeld, and more malignant celebration of what everyone agreed, in April 2003 ...
... Mother Mary, with dreadlocks and a bad back. But within seconds, I was frantic to turn on the TV. I was in withdrawal—I needed more scolding from Donald Rumsfeld, and more malignant celebration of what everyone agreed, in April 2003 ...
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... mother are not racked with back pain and Alzheimer's. Sam has grown tall and muscular. I have grown wider, stiff, and achy. I trip a lot and hit my head on cabinets I forgot were there. I get into the shower with my glasses on. And ...
... mother are not racked with back pain and Alzheimer's. Sam has grown tall and muscular. I have grown wider, stiff, and achy. I trip a lot and hit my head on cabinets I forgot were there. I get into the shower with my glasses on. And ...
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... mother to me, and from Sam to me, cords carrying life. Then I moved on to the story of Rahab, from Joshua 2 in the Hebrew Bible, whose life was saved by a red cord. She was one of the bad girls of the Old Testament, a prostitute in ...
... mother to me, and from Sam to me, cords carrying life. Then I moved on to the story of Rahab, from Joshua 2 in the Hebrew Bible, whose life was saved by a red cord. She was one of the bad girls of the Old Testament, a prostitute in ...
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... mother used to do when she headed down the hall to my older brother's room to bellow at him because he hadn't done his homework. I would flatten myself against the wall and stop breathing, or huddle in my younger brother's room, trying ...
... mother used to do when she headed down the hall to my older brother's room to bellow at him because he hadn't done his homework. I would flatten myself against the wall and stop breathing, or huddle in my younger brother's room, trying ...
Contents
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three sams dad | 31 |
seven adolescence | 91 |
eight sincere meditations | 103 |
ten hard rain | 125 |
eleven good friday world | 135 |
twelve diamond heart | 147 |
fourteen joice to the world | 177 |
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